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History · 2025 · UFC Fight Night: Dern vs. Ribas 2 · Ernesta Kareckaite vs Nicolle Caliari
From the tape · 11 Jan 2025

Ernesta Kareckaite vs Nicolle Caliari

UFC Fight Night: Dern vs. Ribas 2 · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Ernesta Kareckaite beat Nicolle Caliari

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Women's FlyweightMain cardReferee · Kerry Hatley

We published no prediction for this bout. Everything on this page is the official record and the tape it was fought on — the result, the round-by-round counts, the judges’ cards where they exist and the sportsbook line where one was published. Our graded calls start in 2026 and live on the public record.

Red corner ErnestaKareckaite“Heavy-Handed”Fighters Land · Kaunas
VSOn the tape
Blue corner NicolleCaliariThai Brasil · Curitiba, Parana
Women's Flyweight3 rounds11 Jan 2025
The story going in
  • Lands 4.4 more significant strikes a minute than Caliari.
  • Averages 2.6 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Kareckaite.
6-2-1
Record
9-4
−2 yr26
Age
28
+6″5' 9"
Height
5' 3"
+9″71″
Reach
62″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
Fighters Land
Gym
Thai Brasil
Kaunas
From
Curitiba, Parana
Vitals, record, nickname and camp come from the public UFC fighter register and are current, not a snapshot of fight night. UFC bouts, finish rate and every storyline line are counted off the official UFC fight record. A tick marks the side holding the raw edge in that row — longer reach, taller, younger, more bouts, a higher finish rate. It is a fact about the tape, not a prediction, and rows with no clean comparison (record, stance, gym, hometown) carry no tick at all. Any row we cannot fill on both sides is left out rather than half-drawn. Streaks, bout counts and finish rates are as they stood going into this fight — this bout and everything after it is excluded from the count.

Round by round

Every round the fight went, shaded by where the significant strikes actually landed — the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them, and how the three judges scored that round.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Ernesta Kareckaite27 sig landed
HEAD70%19 of 54BODY30%8 of 9LEGS0%0 landed
Nicolle Caliari21 sig landed
HEAD62%13 of 30BODY24%5 of 7LEGS14%3 of 4
27 of 63
Sig.
strikes
21 of 41
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 7
0:34
Control
1:49
Distance 22Clinch 5Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Kareckaite firstMichael Bell9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Ron McCarthy10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Ernesta Kareckaite36 sig landed
HEAD86%31 of 76BODY14%5 of 9LEGS0%0 of 1
Nicolle Caliari24 sig landed
HEAD58%14 of 52BODY25%6 of 9LEGS17%4 of 5
36 of 86
Sig.
strikes
24 of 66
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:59
Control
0:00
Distance 34Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 24Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Kareckaite firstMichael Bell10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Ron McCarthy10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Ernesta Kareckaite32 sig landed
HEAD84%27 of 69BODY16%5 of 8LEGS0%0 landed
Nicolle Caliari22 sig landed
HEAD41%9 of 38BODY50%11 of 19LEGS9%2 of 2
32 of 77
Sig.
strikes
22 of 59
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 4
0:00
Control
1:45
Distance 31Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 21Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Kareckaite firstMichael Bell9–10Sal D'Amato10–9Ron McCarthy9–10

Significant strikes, takedowns, control time, knockdowns and submission attempts exactly as UFCStats recorded them for this bout, round by round. Zone percentages are that round’s landed head, body and leg counts over their own total — raw arithmetic, nothing modelled or smoothed. A round in which a fighter landed nothing shades empty and reads zero; it is never filled in from the round before.

The cards, totalled

The judges’ final totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score. Their round-by-round 10–9s are with the rounds above.

Official card

Split Decision

Referee · Kerry Hatley
Ernesta KareckaiteNicolle Caliari
Official totals — Ernesta Kareckaite first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell28–29
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide29–28
Ron McCarthy2.0 avg spread · 41% wide29–28

Each judge’s round-by-round scores sit with the round they belong to, in the round-by-round section above — switch a round there and the three cards for it change with the stats.

Media cards — 11 scored, Ernesta Kareckaite first · unofficial

Combat Press.com30–27
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Dan Levi Best Fight Picks29–28
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com28–29
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com28–29
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Kareckaite · 39%29-28 Caliari · 32%29-28 Kareckaite · 29%

28 fan cards submitted to MMA Decisions.

Official cards come from the UFCStats fight record and MMA Decisions. Media cards and the fan vote are MMA Decisions’ own collection and are not official. Judge tendency figures are that judge’s whole recorded history, not this bout — they are context for how a card was scored, never a claim that it was scored wrongly.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Ernesta Kareckaite

0.75takedowns / 15 min
0.75 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
3.38 / 15m
1.25 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
11.66 / 15m
60%
ACCURACY
29%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.00 / 15m

Nicolle Caliari

3.38takedowns / 15 min

Career UFC takedown rates exactly as UFCStats publishes them: takedowns landed per 15 minutes, completion rate, submission attempts per 15 minutes, and the share of takedowns tried on them that they stuffed. Attempts per 15 is the one derived figure — landed ÷ completion rate — and it is omitted wherever either input is missing. UFCStats writes 0% where no attempt was recorded at all, so a percentage of exactly zero reads “n/a” here rather than as a measured rate. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average. Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (3.58 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Women's Flyweight

The market story

Where the price started and where it finished — the sportsbook consensus, with the vig removed. We captured no price series for this bout, so there is no chart to draw.

Ernesta Kareckaite↑ +7.5pp
open 63.0%close 70.5%
Nicolle Caliari↓ −7.5pp
open 37.0%close 29.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Ernesta Kareckaite opened at 63.0% and closed at 70.5% (+7.5pp), with Nicolle Caliari moving the other way by the same amount — the two are one de-vigged pair, so they always sum to 100%. There is no line between those two points because nobody recorded one: we hold the open and the close for this bout, not the days in between.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Ernesta Kareckaite-190-28363.0%70.5%+7.5pp
Nicolle Caliari16022437.0%29.5%−7.5pp
Opening and closing moneylines from BestFightOdds (data/refs/bfo_fighter_moneylines.csv), one row per fighter per bout, de-vigged pairwise so the two corners sum to 100% · scraped 2026-06-10. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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